Me and my friend just talked about this. I think metric would be so much easier, but I really don't think its going to happen
I've grown up with the metric system and have barely been taught much imperial. I live in Australia. 85% of the people would refer to someones height in feet/inches even though they all know the metric system. I guess it is just the accepted units for someones height.
It seemed to me that the US was just keeping the Imperial system because we're elitist; however, that was back in the day, before Bush' second term. Since it will take a good sixteen to twenty years to climb out of the wonderful little economic hole our president has so happily dug us into, now it's just a matter of time until we have the funding to issue a nationwide change. An operation like a nationwide change in the measurement system would take billions to correctly pull off, not to mention a generation to really sink in.
Everything is longer in Imperial. Miles are bigger than kilometres. I think a yard and a metre are the same, and inch is like 2.5 times as big as a centimetre and that is Imperial's shortest unit, while metric has the millimetre. Also, isnt a gallon like 4 litres.
I kind of use both, I guess, mostly Metric though but we still use Imperial for speed, long distances (miles, not furlongs), and weight. The rest is metric. Apart from milk which is measured in pints (metric).
Metric is so much easier, I do think it would be smart for the U.S. to switch even though I wouldn't want them to, ecspecially with how big the U.S. is.
The US should swap over but it would be so time and money consuming. Considering how a lot of americans reject change.